Re: Moon Landing Hoax
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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If it was a fake how did the mirror on the moon get there? Scientists and countries totally un connected with NASA and the USA bounce laser beams off it to measure the distance the earth is from the moon.
As conspiracy theories go this is the weakest. Daft!
Lunar laser ranging is the staple diet of any physics lab in most universities. High resolution satellite imagery clearly shows not only the landing sites but the tracks made by the Apollo moon buggy. Then there is the pieces of moon rock which have undergone the most rigorous of analysis.
As for this perpetual fact-blindness about the Van-Allen belt - true if you were to stand in it for a prolonged length of time with no protection, you would be fried. But as the VA belt is comprised mainly of alpha and beta particles which can be shielded by a thin hull, the actual measured radiation is somewhere about 0.16 and 1.14 rads or less than 50mSv/year standard set by people who work with radioactivity. The biggest danger is not the VA belt, but solar radiation outside the Earth's magnetic influence, where you can be exposed to EM radiation from UV up to beyond gamma rays to cosmic rays.